All October Walk to School Month

Friday 14 October Canteen Helpers Needed Please

Friday 14 October Assembly

Monday 17 October School Council Meeting

Monday 17 - 19 October Foundation Swimming Program

Wednesday 26 October Diwali Celebrations

Thursday 27 October Raising Digital Citizens Evening 7pm - 8:30pm

Friday 28 October CURRICULUM DAY - No students this day

Tuesday 1 November Melbourne Cup Public Holiday

Friday 11 November Lapathon

Friday 18 November 2017 Foundation Transition

Monday 21 November Sustainability Leaders Excursion

Friday 25 November 2017 Foundation Transition

Thursday 1 December 2017 Foundation Information Evening

Friday 2 December 2017 Foundation Transition

Wednesday 7 December Twilight Christmas Concert

Friday 9 December 2017 Foundation Transition

Tuesday 13 December Parent Helper Morning Tea

Tuesday 20 December Last Day of Term 4 FINISH at 1:30PM

12 October 2016

Dear Parents/Carers

Welcome back to Term 4! The year is definitely flying past.

A big welcome to Nena Sadler, our new office manager! Nena is enjoying meeting all the

students and parents and is settling in to her new position very quickly.

Congratulations to Naden and her team of helpers for organising the wonderful Spring Party on the last day of

Term 3. It was a very happy occasion and the whole school community had a fun time participating in all the

activities. A great way to further develop our community spirit!

Catherine Gerhardt from Classroom Connections has been booked to speak to parents on the importance of

Raising Digital Citizens. The evening will be on Thursday 27 October from 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm. Catherine is a

very engaging speaker and this is an area many parents are grappling with their children. Please mark this date

in your diary and try to attend. I’m sure you will find it very worthwhile.

Thank you to John Conte for the beautiful seats he has built that have been placed

around the basketball courts. The timber is magnificent! John was assisted by

Paul Wines, Cameron Viney and Bjorn Bayliss. Thank you to all these dads.

A job well done!

A curriculum day has been scheduled for Friday 28 October. This will be a pupil

free day.

We have a very busy and full term ahead. Please keep note of the diary dates each

week so that you can make the most of all that is planned!

Kind regards

Julie

Be Sunsmart!

ENGLISH RESULTS

Year 2 Credit Christopher C, Ariana H, Joe D, James G, Jessie L

Merit Joshua I

Year 3 Distinction Daniel G, Harrison S, Trent M

Credit Abby D, Dylan H, Jessie L, Mitchell W

Merit Jamie B, Alina M

Year 4 Credit Mia D

Merit Courtney J, Rhea G

Year 5 Distinction Leah A, Tara F, Annie L

Credit Zachary C, Jaimie W, Lilly A, Jyn Hum T, Kali V

Merit Michael Y

Year 6 Credit Tiana C, Jacob C, Jieh Ni K

MATHEMATICS RESULTS

Year 2 High Distinction Chloe F, James G, James W

Distinction Matthew H, Jessie L

Credit Christopher C, Ariana H, Sean Z

Merit Joshua I

Year 3 High Distinction Daniel G

Credit Becky L, Harrison S, Luke H, Dylan H, Alina M,

Isabella T, George V

Merit Caroline C, Mitchell W

Year 4 Distinction Oliver P

Credit Adriel A, Mia D, Aahana S

Merit Rhea G, Courtney J, Xander L

Year 5 High Distinction Zachary C, Tara F, Annie L

Distinction Calum S, Jacob B, Chloe B, Jyn Hum T, Michael W,

Jaimie W

Credit Lilly A, Leah A, Jemma C, Lana E,, Michael Y

Merit Manisha G, Bessarion K, Zac P

Year 6 Credit Tiana C, Jieh Ni K, Caitlin R

Merit Eric I

ICAS RESULTS

Dear Donburn Community

I wish to thank you all for a fabulous farewell.

At the student run assembly on my final Wednesday afternoon, the students

sang with gusto the ‘Margaret’ song (to the tune of Petula Clarke’s

‘Downtown’). It was so, so special and the song still rings in my head - thanks

Grant!

Thanks to Fay Davidson who played the bag pipes in fine style as I was

escorted out of assembly!

Thanks to the students and teachers of each class, for the book which has so

much content and is providing me with interesting reading. I marvel at the

creative art work! A great keep sake.

Thanks to Kris Pepper for the presentation of a candle stick that was skilfully

handcrafted by her father-in-law. A piece of wattle from a fallen tree in the

school grounds was the source of the timber. Another piece of original

Donburn memorabilia.

A number of videos with comments by students and teachers and whole class

performances are very moving (an odd tear has been shed) - sincere thanks to

those involved.

A very special afternoon tea with delicious food provided by the staff. Great to

have my family present and to see the many ex Donburnian’s who returned.

AND THANK YOU, I absolutely love the ring, a gift from the

whole community.

I feel blessed to have worked at the very BEST school in

Manningham for 17 years. Thanks to every one of you for

making Donburn what it is today.

Sincerely

Marg Hanna

THANK YOU FROM MARG

Last Wednesday, the 5 October, we made our way

to visit the Rethink Education Waste Wise Centre

in Banyule. At the Centre, we had the opportunity

to take part in an educational program aimed at

exploring waste minimisation in the environment.

We learnt about how we can avoid creating waste

by reusing and recycling. This included looking at

items we use in our daily lives and how they can

be used for different purposes along with shopping

wisely to minimise

waste and learning how

recyclable items are

reprocessed and made

into new items.

We really enjoyed our

time at the centre.

Thank you to Douglas,

The Material Girls’ and

Rethink for having us

for the day.

Luke (3W) putting his

recycling knowledge to the

test in the recycling quiz.

Mackenzie (3J) representing

the ‘Bin Busters’ in the

recycling quiz.

Malcolm (3M) and Xin (3W)

learning how to shop waste-

wise when at the supermarket.

YEAR 3 RETHINK WASTE WISE EDUCATION

CENTRE EXCURSION

YEAR 3 HANDS ON SCIENCE INCURSION On Tuesday 10 October, the Year 3 students participated in a Hands on

Science incursion about night and day.

We had great fun conducting simple experiments that

explained many of the functions of our Solar System, including

how the moon reflects light, why shadows occur, why planets

orbit the sun at different speeds and how a rocket launches.

We were amazed that all of

these exciting experiments

were conducted using such

simple household items like

torches, plastic bags, shiny

paper and funnels.

We are looking forward to

learning even more about night

and day during our

science unit for this

term.

Year 3 Teachers -

Jeremiah Juric,

Amanda Wilson,

Lauren Maher

Throughout Term 3 the Foundation students thoroughly

enjoyed learning about many different Fairy Tales.

On Thursday 15 September, the Foundation students

had their Fairy Tale Dress Up Day. The students came to

school dressed as their favourite fairy tale character.

It was wonderful to see the

creative and colourful costumes

the students wore.

On the day we had a class party

to celebrate all the amazing work

the Foundation students have

completed throughout our unit of

work on Fairy Tales.

Thank you to all the parents who

contributed to the class party. A

very big thank you to Tiffany

Podrug who made the day extra

special by face painting all of the

Foundation students.

We had some beautiful looking

butterflies, tigers and Spidermen!

FAIRY TALE DRESS UP DAY

THE GREEK FLAG This flag was bought from Athens, Greece to give to

the school from Markus and Damon L.

The Greek Flag has 9 horizontal stripes in blue and

white. It also has a white cross on the blue square.

The white cross symbolises Eastern Orthodox

Christianity.

According to a popular tradition, the 9 strips

represent the 9 syllables of the phrase “Freedom of Death”.

The 5 blue stripes for the syllables of “Eleutheria” (Freedom). Markus & Damon

TVD's Rock Donburn Last Friday our fantastic vocal group the TVD's {talented voices of Donburn}

performed two concerts to all the children at our school. The group is made up

of 12 very talented children from Years 5 and 6. They have been rehearsing for

over three months and were so excited to finally get to perform the show. All the

choreography was created by the children and they have worked incredibly well

as a team to put the show together. The kids of Donburn were rocking to such

hits as 'Video Killed the Radio Star, Wannabe, Me Too, You're the One That I

Want, Rollin' in the Deep, One Call Away, Dancing Queen

and many more. The Donburn kids were a great audience

and loved singing and dancing along to the songs.

The TVD's will next perform at Donvale Primary School on

November the 3rd followed by a night time concert for all

parents and friends at 7pm on November 22nd. Tickets

will be out soon so stay tuned.

Lastly a huge congratulations to Tiana, Ella, Samantha,

Ellie, Avalon, Gemma, Jessica, Caitlin, Jacob, Kali, Kiara

and Claire. You are all amazing.

Grant Puglia - Music Teacher

Next year all Year 5

and 6s will perform in

our musical as well as

two children from every

junior grade.

It is a few months off

yet but if anyone is

available to help out

with costuming, learning

lines, production etc. it

would be great to hear

from you.

"On Thursday 15th September I travelled to Bendigo to

compete for my Gymnastics club BTYC in the National

Club Championships. Our events were held on Friday

and Sunday with 6 routines performed per day by each

state.

The athletes from BTYC were the only Victorian

representatives in the competition of 99 athletes over

Levels 3 and 4 MAG.

Day 1 of competition was very enjoyable and I had my

strongest individual results for the year. Day 2 was even more exciting

because my team took the title of National Champions for Vault. Vault is one

of my favourite routines.

It was great to compete against athletes from all around Australia and I am

looking forward to competing at this event again next year."

Logan M.

LOGAN IN THE BENDIGO NATIONAL

CLUBS GYMNASTIC COMPETITION

Last week we celebrated National eSmart Week. Our Student Committee were

very active in delivering some appropriate cyber safety messages. Students

were engaged in a variety of discussions and activities. Keep your ‘eyes open,’

for our ‘eSmart Cyberhero wall’ which is currently being organised

Regards, Emma Hopkins and Robyn Fraser

The use of technology tools to keep your child safe online

There are so many technological advances that can enhance the experience for

your child online and help keep them safe, both within the site or app and for

their devices. A great way to keep your child safe online is to use parental

controls and install filtering software to help block unwanted content and

pop-ups and to restrict access to specific content and pages.

Filtering software

There is a wide range of filtering software products available on the market.

Some available features of these products include:

· customisable content filtering on web browsing

· multiple profiles

· setting internet usage time limits

· activity monitoring

· remote access to software

· multi-device, browser and operating system applicability

· white and black listing of websites

· social network monitoring

· GPS location monitoring

· invisible mode

· contacts monitoring

· email/SMS alerts

· apps blocking

· calls/SMS monitoring

Some of the filtering products available on the Australian market include:

Qustodio, Norton Family, NetNanny, PureSight Surfie, CYBERsitter, McAfee

There are some very false advertisements saying your computer is infected with a virus and that you should

download their software to remove it but mainly they are trying to scam you and lie. They will later install

viruses on your computer. Just do not trust any software except the ones in the store or ones that your

parents use. We recommend Norton. They will also make some fake comments saying that the software

worked perfectly and helped them tremendously but these are all fake.

The second method is to press the big red button on the right corner, if you’re on Mac or Macintosh you have

to click the red X in the left of the pop up. Make sure you click the X button, not the advertisement itself. If you

click on the advertisement, do not download anything they ask you to download. If there isn’t a button to exit

out of the page, then try method one. They cannot hurt or harm your computer as long as you do not

download anything they ask you to. If they say you will win something like a very high class phone or a

voucher, it is most likely a scam and they will tell you to do a ‘Human Verification.’ But really what this is, is

leading you to another advertisement website and then it will lead you to another one for them to maximize

their earnings and money.

Brought to you by: Ewan and Erfan eSmart Junior Committee

POP UPS (Part 2)

Donburn’s Sustainability Committee have chosen ‘Living Fundraisers’ to help us

raise some funds to create sustainable gardens at Donburn.

Living Fundraisers provide Australian made, organic and healthy products that

are also good for the environment. Please fill out form below to receive your

Growing Kit. Check some examples out at the office.

Sustainability Committee: Jarod Ryan, Chris Kovits, Amanda Coddington,

Lauren Maher, Mike Todd, Lynette Hookey, Peter Redmile, Kathryn Manago,

Laurene OConnor, Debbie Kyriacou and Merinda Hochmann

SUSTAINABILITY FUNDRAISER

DETAILS

DURATION 21 October to 18 November

RETURN REPLY FORM Friday 21 October

RETURN MONEY BY Friday 18 November

RETURN TO Office Staff

COST $60 per Growing Kit. (10 plants) Payable by 18 November

Participating Donburn families will receive a carry bag containing vegetable,

flower, herb and fruit Growing Kits to sell (10 kits in a bag).

Please fill out and return the form below with your preference for number of

Growing Kits you prefer in your bag, or that you wish to opt out of this fundraiser.

Each individual plant sells for just $6. (10 plants in each Kit, total value is $60)

You could also share a bag with a friend or take more than 1 bag. The plants will

keep well unopened for 12 months. Great for Christmas presents.

Please return monies and any unsold kits to the School Office by 18 November.

FLOWERS, HERBS, VEGETABLES AND FRUIT TO SELL OR KEEP

LIVING FUNDRAISERS REPLY FORM

Please Tick

PLANTS 10 x FLOWER PLANTS (Kit value $60)

Dwarf Sunflower, Aster ‘Colour Carpet’, Swan River Daisy ‘Splendour Mix’,

Snapdragon ‘Tom Thumb’, Petunia ‘Happy Colours’

10 x HERB PLANTS (Kit value $60)

Basil, parsley, chives, coriander, mint

10 x VEGETABLE PLANTS (Kit value $60)

Lettuce, capsicum, cherry tomato, cucumber & green beans

10 x FRUIT PLANTS (Kit value $60)

Red, white and Alpine, strawberry, honeydew, rockmelon, watermelon

10 x RANDOM MIXTURE OF PLANTS ABOVE (Kit value $60)

NO THANKS I do not wish to take part in this fundraiser .

HELP I would like to help the Sustainability Committee run this fundraiser.

Name_____________________ Ph_____________________

ELDEST CHILD’S

NAME & CLASS _______________________________________________________ _______

PARENTS AND FRIENDS ASSOCIATION

The District Athletics carnival was held last Monday at the Tom Kelly Doncaster

Athletics track. In cool, windy conditions, fifty-two children represented our

school achieving high level results.

Final results were: 431 - Doncaster, 316 - Donburn, 303 – Templestowe Valley,

261 – Doncaster Gardens, 195 – St Gregs, 163- Doncaster, 90 – St Kevins.

In the same week, fifteen children progressed to the Division Athletics Carnival

which was held last Thursday at the Bill Sewart Athletics track. The children

competed In more pleasant conditions with 6 children now competing at the

Eastern Metropolitan Regional Athletics tomorrow.

We wish Kaleb D., Ruby M., Ella B., Tara F., Baran D. & Bridget H. all the best

in their events tomorrow.

Thank you so much to all the parents for helping out the school team and

transporting children to and from the carnivals.

Anna Papamichael - PE Teacher

ATHLETICS

25 October

YR3/4 Girls All Star

Hoop Time Final

4 November

YR5/6 Girls/Boys All

Star Hoop Time

1 December

YR 5/6 John Hanson

Sports Day

Call Vitina on 0434 140 739 or visit her in the

canteen Monday, Wednesday or Friday and

have a chat about how to be a canteen helper.

CANTEEN

HELPERS NEEDED FOR FRIDAYS PLEASE!

SICK BAY ROSTER

A clean bed is greatly appreciated by children who need to

rest and recover in the sick bay. We therefore need parents

willing to wash the sick bay bedding on a weekly basis.

We are looking for more volunteers to be placed on the Term 4 roster please.

NAME CHILD’S NAME CLASS

START TERM 4 IN A HEALTHY WAY!

Find a way to Walk to School in October. This is a free, easy and fun way to

help kids get the 60 minutes of exercise they need each day.

I’ll see you on the footpath in Term 4!

Beth McInnes

OCTOBER IS WALK TO SCHOOL MONTH

COMMUNITY NEWS The Department of Education and Donburn Primary School School Council do not endorse the products or services of any private advertiser or community group.

No responsibility is accepted for accuracy of information contained in advertisements or claims made by them.

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COMMUNITY NEWS The Department of Education and Donburn Primary School School Council do not endorse the products or services of any private advertiser or community group.

No responsibility is accepted for accuracy of information contained in advertisements or claims made by them.

If you have a concern at any time regarding any issue to do with the school please feel free to mention it to Julie Hoskin (Principal) or Jarod Ryan (Acting Assistant Principal).